I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.