Abridger Quotes

#1. Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer
a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

Gary Lutz

#2. In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Erica Jong

#3. We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

Rachel Harris

#4. For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.

Dana Gould

#5. The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Fred Allen

#6. You can't always understand something just because you did it.

Richard Bachman

#7. Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.

Katherine Paterson

#8. Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.

William Shakespeare

#9. I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

John Calvin

#10. I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vicky said. "But I haven't found it yet.

Leila Sales

#11. Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.

Sharon Osbourne

#12. Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

Andrew Davies