[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not.