Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

Sam Hellerman is a genius!

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.

Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them.

D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the "what about me" people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them