Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.