Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.
You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.
When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.
Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.