The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.