Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.