You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check.

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

The problem with people is that they're only human.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.