If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.