I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I can see your dirtypillows.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.