An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

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

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

I do some eccentric dancing.

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.