If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

It's never just a game when you're winning.