“...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.”

“I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence.”

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”

“If all the world's a stage, then it's missing a few planks.”

“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”

“You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.”