Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.