There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.