When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.