There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. |
Kung Fu Monkey | |
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Freed from desire, then you can see the hidden mystery. |
Fortune Cookie | |
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As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. |
Commenting on the unexpected outcome of what should have been a truly amazing marketing campaign. It is a Lenoir Family tradition to watch this episode on Thanksgiving Day after the dishes have been cleaned. | Arthur Carlson in the Turkeys Away episode of WKRP in Cincinnati |
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All that is wrong with American food culture can be traced to the recipe. I am suffering under its tyranny. |
Cooking is so much more than just a list of ingredients and steps, it's an art that has to be learned from the ground up. | From Bill Lenoir Himself |
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A victory described in detail is indistinguishable from a defeat. |
Conclusions drawn from a failed sixteenth century peasant revolt. | The Devil and the Good Lord by Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. |
The author, Frank McCourt, after discovering The Great Bard. Ain't bad for an Englishman, 'tis he? | Angela's Ashes |
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Never trust a skinny chef or a fat priest. |
This is one of my rules of life. | Bill Lenoir |
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He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. |
Will Graham reflecting on his talents. | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris |
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Reading good books ruins you for reading bad books. |
Isolo Pribby in a letter to Miss Ashton | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
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Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials. The world will someday get me on some ludicrous pretext; I simply await the day they drag me to some airconditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and sound-proofed ceiling to pay the price of scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts. |
Ignatius J. Reilly | A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole |
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A nation of overfed clowns living in a hostile cartoon environment. |
The author's belief (on page 10) that, just maybe, Who Framed Roger Rabbit had it right. | The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler |
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Bored and insecure men will loose arrows at dust motes. |
The narrator commenting on Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser at the beginning of Lean Times in Lankhmar. | Swords in the Mist by Fritz Lieber |