From the Writer’s Notebook

A few tidbits from the notebook where I jot down things I want to remember:

Never have more children than you have car windows.
— Erma Bombeck

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
— Cary Grant

I’d as soon murdered him as left out his middle name.
— Robert Frost in The Code.

Pigs don’t fly but swine flu.
— Unknown

How you are dressed says how you want to be received.
— Layne Longfellow (at Arkansas Writers Conference on “Reading Your Prose.”)

Relaxation music makes me nervous.
— DH

The media skewered my remarks.
— Carl Paladino, 2010

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx

Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that’s not true. I have the heart of a small boy — in a jar on my desk.
— Stephen King

It seems, living in a small town, we’re either under a burn ban or a boil order.
— DH