“A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious...” — Elizabeth McCracken Quote

“A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.”

“Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.”

“I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.”

“Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.”

“There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.”

“When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily.”

“In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley.”

“Graffiti is art, but you don't see graffiti in the National Gallery. Graffiti is on the street - that's where it belongs.”

“God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.”

“Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions.”

“Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion.”

“Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.”