You can't be careful on a skateboard.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.