My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.