I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

One does not have humor. It has you.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

I'm a recovering optimist.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.