Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

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

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

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

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.

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.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.