You're too young to decide to live forever.

You can't eat straight A's.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."