Yo mama is so stupid… she thought she couldn't buy a Gameboy because she is a girl! Yo

Such presumption, said Aunt Laura, meaning for a Dix to aspire to a Murray. It wasn't because of his presumption I packed him off, said Emily. It was because of the way he made love. He made a thing...

His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn't that enough to tell? Isn't it all you need to know?

C'mon, let's go join those tedious people.

We all had parts to play, we all had costumes to wear, we all had to be as merry as we could be, for the King was always laughing this winter and the Queen never stopped smiling.

It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.

There are rumors about the depraved and perverted practices of the pulchritudinous protestant puritan plutocratic penis - people priesthood, of shadowy bacchanalian polyamorous practices. ... I...

The next summer we went to France for six weeks, and I added another 420 words, most of them found in the popular gossip magazine, 'Voici'. Man-eater, I'd say. Gold digger, roustabout, louse. Who are...

Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you...

"I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater," said Sherlock Holmes. "I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MPs, but in truth most are...

Food has a unique political power, for several reasons: food links the world's richest consumers with its poorest farmers; food choices have always been a potent means of social signaling; modern...

Cultural differences are real, and cannot be talked away by using pejorative terms such as "stereotypes" or "racism."

You're sort of like the Paris Hilton of wine, Martin had offered. She'd nearly keeled over in horror.

Beautiful people blossomed forth from out of the polyglot, people who really had a lot to them, only it had been smothered by all the eternal social games that had been set up. Suddenly they found...

"He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons. Yes—the clothes, the coins ... All fakeable. How do you know him to be rich, then? In the wilderness, only the most terrible...

We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians....

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.