“Metaphors are like similes, the only difference is.”

“There's a subtle difference between the man that lives like each day could be his last and the man who lives like there's no tomorrow.”

“An English major is like being in a book club that costs $40,000 a year, has only annoying people in it, offers no refreshments at the meetings, and where people actually read the books.”

“It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.”

“Six LinesI know that in this world no one needs me,me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyardWho needs a poem, especially in Yiddish?Only what is hopeless on this earth has beautyand only the ephemeral is godlyand humility is the only true rebellion”

“By some estimates, the data-storage curve is rocketing upward at the rate of 800 percent per year. Organizations are collecting so much data they're overwhelmed. Families are no different; we have more things on disk, more photos, more items stored than we'll ever have to allocate time for. "Since Kodachrome made way for jpeg, pictures accumulate on hard drives like wet leaves in a gutter." (Jim Lewis, author of "The King is Dead")”

“A metaphor is like a simile.”