You can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up a little sometimes, but you can't kill him. - David Sedaris

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick.