Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.