I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.