Even mistakes can be wonderful.

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.