[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.