Neil Gaiman is the man.

"Dangerous. Not Dangerous. Same thing."
-- Neil Gaiman, Mirrormask

Quote of the day

"Potential events are often more important than real events."

-- Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

Luminescent intestinal tracks

"I hope no one is offended by the concept of glowing bowels."

-- Sean Cullen, Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates

Land.

'Buy land, they're not making it anymore.'

— Mark Twain

I miss George Carlin.

"In your own words. You hear it in classrooms. And courtrooms. They'll say, 'Tell us in your own words...'

Do you have your own words? Personally, I'm using the ones everybody else has been using.

Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say, 'Nigflot blorny quando floon.'

— George Carlin

Of course, if you do indeed say "Nigflot blorny quando floon," you'l be using George Carlin's words. Not your own. But you get the picture.

What doth maketh the boy?

"A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain -- in short, a man. Oh, these autobiographies in which the writer postures and simpers as a David Copperfield or a Huck Finn! False, false as harlots' oaths!"

-- Robertson Davies as Dunstan 'Corky' Ramsay in Fifth Business

The Divine Number 9

"The most striking landmark on his face is the nose. It is not a nose to trifle with."

--- Roy MacSkimming, on Gordie Howe, from Gordie: A Hockey Legend, page 7.

Demetri Martin quote of the day

I was recently introduced to a New York comic whose one-liners are worthy of Stephen Wright himself. One a day, my friends, one a day:

"They call it fishin', but they should call it what it really is: trickin' and killin'."

-- Demetri Martin

Demetri Martin quote of the day

I was recently introduced to a New York comic whose one-liners are worthy of Stephen Wright himself. One a day, my friends, one a day:

"Saying 'I apologize' is the same as saying 'I'm sorry'. Unless you're at a funeral."

-- Demetri Martin

Demetri Martin quote of the day

I've just been introduced to a New York comedian, who's, well, funny, in a Stephen-Wright-at-the-piano kind of way:

"It's easy to turn any toy into an adult toy: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION."

-- Demetri Martin