"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."

"My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense."

"Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm."

"Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong."

"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."

"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them."