People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.

TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

Technology favors horrible people.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?