It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.