Sam Kinison

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots
during the vows.

Lady Astor

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: "If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Churchill: "If I were your husband I'd drink it."

Stacy Schiff in the New York Times

By one estimate, 27 novels are published every day in America. A new blog is created every second. We would appear to be in the midst of a full-blown epidemic of graphomania. Surely we have never read, or written, so many words a day. Yet increasingly we deal in atomized bits of information, the hors d’oeuvres of education. We read not in continuous narratives but by linkage, the movable type of the 21st century. Our appetites are gargantuan, our attention spans anorectic. Small wonder trivia is enjoying a renaissance.