Most recently I read Michael Lewis "Boomerang." The other guy I love is Bill Bryson.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

His walk and stare. Was as poisonous as the air after a nuclear bomb.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Talkers expand like bread dough.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.