The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.