The way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm really hoping that it's not the rule from here on out. It's really distressing for me to witness this. I really hope we don't have to throw all decency out the window, just because Trump's president.

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.