A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.