If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

Why in the world are you a Republican?

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.