The American dream itself is declining.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.