I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

(on sweet corn and sex) I love sweet corn. It truly is better than sex! I'm not lying! All across the Midwest tonight, a husband and wife will finish what husb…

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thou…

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one…