“I don’t have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”

“Honesty is the best image.”

“Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

“Any great truth can — and eventually will — be expressed as a cliche — a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, ‘The black cat is always the last one off the fence.’ I have no idea what she mea…

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.”

“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”

“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”

“Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.”