Bill Lenoir

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
Angela's Ashes
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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?

From Angela's Ashes

Never trust a skinny chef or a fat priest.

This is one of my rules of life.

From Bill Lenoir

He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers.

Will Graham reflecting on his talents.

From Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Reading good books ruins you for reading bad books.

Isolo Pribby in a letter to Miss Ashton

From The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

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

From A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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.

From The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

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.

From Swords in the Mist by Fritz Lieber