I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.

Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.