Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?