In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too good. There is a big draw to people who are successful at breaking the rules. That means we end up admiring a lot of people that we think we shouldn't.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.