Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.