"Ugly facts are a challenge to beautify them."

"I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer …"

"J. M. Coetzee at The New York Review of Books"

"I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important."

"A true graphic novel can be very satisfying and it really is a form of story telling that is not a book and…"

"Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age."