Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in.