I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different points in different people's lives, and obviously there are lots of people who experience the presence of death much more keenly and much earlier than I did. But we all come to grips with it eventually.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

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.