If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob, ' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

I'm magically delicious.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

Your approval gives others the confidence to serve, to learn, to try.