In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.