One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.