Category: Writers

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
– H. L. Mencken

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
– Jean Kerr

“He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.”
– Kingsley Amis

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with keyboards.”
– Solomon Short ( David Gerrold)

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.”

– Jean Kerr

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” – Calvin Trillin

“As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
– Gregory Maguire