Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart and burp as well.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous