Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

See the cat? See the cradle?

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.