I’m thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting?

“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way-…”

“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a roo…”

“He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.”

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because…”