And books can also establish one more facet of someone’s ass-kickingness — here (Oh YEAH!)

What is easiest to do, alas, tends to get done rather more often than it should, and nothing is easier than to make fun of that which you don’t understand. — there (Excellent)

It’s yet another case of the usual sort, isn’t it? When you hear the word “passive”, put your hand on your billfold. — here

IT’S CLIMATOLOGIC ATTENTION-DEFICIT PARADISE. The weather changes every few minutes. It snowed. Then it was sunny. Then it rained. Then it was cloudy. Then there was hail. Then it was sunny. Then it snowed. And it was sunny. Then cloudy. Then we went to bed and heard the world’s most incredible windstorm. And it apparently rained after that because the car was wet. You will most likely never be bored with the weather. — there (Quite strangely, he is not talking about Oklahoma.)