He did not say anything was wrong with Subarus. The best thing does not always become the most successful thing.

The thing on the hood looks like a deer whistle. http://www.farmandfleet.com/catalog/image.aspx?i=623481

Loved the Dick Van Dyke Show title sequence reference.

It don't get any better than THAT! I'm SERIOUS.

Since Truman Capote pretty much revised his diary (or the news) for his literary efforts, it's safe to assume Holly Golightly was based on a hustler in Manhattan who changed his name from Horace to Morris when he got off the bus.

In Ironweed the ghosts were drunk if they died drunk.

Well, don't listen to me, then. I haven't taken a bite in public in years, and I am pretty unsuccessful. I would still assume that attending a work meeting and consuming nothing is a valid option. There are a million good reasons to abstain. "After this work meeting I have a dinner date." That one seems airtight. …

Depends on whether you're afraid to say you're on a restricted diet. "Talk to my doctor," I tell the ones who know better than I do. Do you pretend to like things to get along, too?

"What, you have some?" is a good game, too.

The go go world Aaron traveled through was likely filled with people who were more sure of themselves than could possibly be advised. Self-confidence is typically built on blind faith. Alpha males, "machers," have been known to touch the third rail of self-awareness and crash in balls of fire.

"Cue" is the spelling you're groping for, conclusion jumper; "cue the politician" as in, give the politician his cue, his "go" word. It was a good opportunity to rattle off a few of your hilarious "Oblame-a" slurs.

You need more doors between kitty and the outside. The outside is a rotten place for a kitty.

You got to work with what you got.

And he pretty much rescued the entire Oakland Zoo from the ugliest thing that happens to a zoo with a revenue problem. It's a joy to go there now, and if the theater there is named for a female relative of his, I can deal.

Using your process in no way ensures a superior result.

Who would go to the trouble of making themselves a shirt but not have time to carve the buttons out of whale bone?

Passengers on my June flight from SFO to JFK were treated to a showing of John Carter. I looked up and down the plane and could not find anyone who was both looking at the screen and listening to the soundtrack in headphones. Some had brought something specifically interesting to them and were looking at that. …

QT challenged himself with something more restrained and empathetic when he made Jackie Brown. The public did not particularly reward him. That's the one *I* like to watch repeatedly.

Harrison Bergeron was a migraine sufferer.

"I'm a 7. He's a 4. How could he cheat on me?" You could have at least treated him like a six. Might have slowed it down.