Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Russians don't complain, usually.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me that that would be funny. I mean it might be - you could try it and see. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.