I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.