The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.