"Part of that has to do with the fact that the book is a mix of humor and pathos. For me, I love someone like David Se…"

"My mother is very smart, thoughtful, and loving, but I find that religion can take the most intelligent parts of her …"

"I don’t want people to consume our suffering. I am not tragic. I don’t want to be pathology porn so I don’t write it."

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"