I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.