I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.