It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to the right. Romney has backed himself into a couple of corners that I don't think will serve him well in the general election, the main one being very harsh stands on immigration, which I think are not only short-sighted but to my mind immoral.

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.