If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.

I never had the vaguest idea whether any of it had anything to do with me, especially being a sixth grader. When I got older and traveled, I'd read about the history of where I was going. I'd be like, "Oh, history is kind of interesting."

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Reading... a vacation for the mind.

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.