Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Do everything which could make you happy

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

The Democrats need to govern for all Americans as well as deliver for their core constituencies. It will be difficult for them to do both.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.