I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.

In my dream world gay people in America would get the right to marry, and not a one of them would use that right.

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.