One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.