Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.