So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

Imagine the painting: it would be your mercy so kind to come to light and get, gentleman, thank you, I see that you are the blond, allow you to introduce a fourth of Toledo steel in the hygadillos.

- Are you always like that? - How is it? - Falcó smiled. - So conceited. So sure of himself. So of everything. - It goes for days. - And today is one of those days?...

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking...

Fat-heided creatures, the Carmichaels, she said judiciously. Loyal enough, but stubborn as rocks.Thus sayeth a Fraser, I remarked. The Carmichaels must be something special in that line.

Thought of blowing your brains out?William blinked, startled.No.That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it?

We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/? Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his...

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time, he said callously. Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?Absence, I said, dodging...

So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage?

Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that,' Raymon replied, 'are white.

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

You'd be surprised. Charlie said.You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.What the hell is Limp Bizkit?

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball...

{I} don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

FatherMichael:OK we should get on with this; I don't want to be late for my 2 o'clock. First I have to ask, is there anyone in here who thinks there is any reason why these two should not be...

The hips were the leaders of this conspiracy. So I rang my boss and held the phone to my hips so he could hear them too.

It's not easy remembering the good times.

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle.

A soldier: I know where heaven is and it's Lithuania ... The women are beautiful, pagan, with a practical view towards sex. Who says communism was bad? You're working three levels of advantages:...

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

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in...

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. 'It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.' 'And their schooling,' added Holmes sententiously.

I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jeweller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own....

Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the entire rhythm nation. Set the Dj up as the executive, the...

Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.