Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
Life isn’t always a butcher’s game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they’re precious.
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I’ll-fake-it skills.
Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.
You should never trust a person who prays in public.
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.
Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer’s job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.
I’ve killed enough of the world’s trees.
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person.
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.
Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won’t govern, he should resign.
It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.
Pain is the biggest power of love.
Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.
A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.