To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

Men generally do not see women as competition.