She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.