(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.