Loquacious

“Mr. and Mrs. Hankshaw were summoned from the waiting room where Saturday Evening Post fantasies had clouded their instinctive parental concern the way that Norman Rockwell's sentimental ideas cloud the purity of a blank canvas.”
― Tom Robbins

“In a voice that sounds the way a can of cheap dog food would sound if a can of cheap dog food could speak, he tells you you are looking well.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings