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

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.

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

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