“Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.”
“If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.”
“My head is my favorite swimming pool.”
“Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.”
“There should be no crying in copyediting.”
“Jenna had started swimming in the deep end of the pity pool.”