Just about everyone I know complains about the same thing when they’re being honest–including, maybe especially, people whose business is reading and writing. They mourn the loss of books and the loss of time for books.
–George Packer

You consider your license plate personalized because your father made it.

Your grandmother has “ammo” on her Christmas list.

You take your dog for a walk and you both use the same tree.

You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. – Sir Charles Barkley

People I hardly know still keep asking me to be their Facebook friend. What do I do? It’s a bit impolite to ignore their request, which I often do by default. It’s rude to say No. And it’s a bit false to say Yes. So I dither.
–Dharmaruci

* Put “eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done.

* Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen!

* Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt. -Sandra Boynton, author of Chocolate: the Consuming Passion

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around–nobody big, I mean–except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff–I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye, and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.
–J. D. Salinger

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother. – Rita Rudner

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows…

“Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”