“The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He wrote Saturday Night Fever, then crossed it out and wrote Drag Ball + Bollywood and underlined it twice.”

“David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes.”

“We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.”

“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”

“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”

“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”

“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.”