He was tenser than Jesse Jackson on Father's Day.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.