"The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners."
"The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes."
"The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming."
"If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself."
"I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed."
"Unrequited love is the only possible way to give yourself to another without being held in indentured servitude."