I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.