You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore