And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.