It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.