We knew the front door was always left open, but we broke in just to keep in practice. Doxy turned all the Washburn family photos to the wall so there wouldn't be any witnesses.

In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.