"The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life."
"Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore."
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."
"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
"A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing."