You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.