Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

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

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.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

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

I do some eccentric dancing.