Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

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.

When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not roll out the welcome mat for unemployed Americans.

Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.