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American writer
“It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.”
“My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green E...”
“You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?""It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize.""Must be a human thing.""Exactly.”
“But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age.""I thought you liked redheads.""I do. What's your point?”
“Author's WarningIf you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their fort...”
“The medium obscured the message.”
“In another Christmas story, Dale Pearson, evil developer, self-absorbed woman hater, and seemingly unredeemable curmudgeon, might be visited in the night by a series of ghosts who, by showing him b...”
“It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.”
“That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.”
“Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.”
“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
“Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly g...”
“The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.”
“I'm poor and my cat is huge.”
“Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily."No.""Elvis?""I told you, it's supernatural.”
“An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.”
“She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.”
“I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan."And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan.”
“As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.”
“When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'”
