The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.