As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?