Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost.

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.