You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.