Skiing Is Better Than Sex Actually, Because

I Was Darkly Convinced That At Age 52 I Would Kill Myself Because My Mother Committed Suicide At That Age. I Was Fantasizing That She Was Waiting For Me On The Other Side Of The Grave.

He Won't Fly On The Balinese Airline, Garuda, Because He Won't Fly On Any Airline Where The Pilots Believe In Reincarnation.

And Just As I Was Climbing Into That First-class Seat, And Wrapping Myself In A Blanket, Just As I Was Adjusting My Pillow Behind My Head, And Having A Sip Of That Champagne, And Just As I Was Bringing Down And Adjusting My Thai Purple Sleep Mask, I Had An Inkling. I Had A Flash. I Suddenly Thought I Knew What It Was That Had Killed Marilyn Monroe.

I Think Of New York As A Puree And The Rest Of The United States As Vegetable Soup.

The Fact That New York Continues In The Face Of All Of The Chaos, Of The Crime, Of The Madness, You Just Think That It Would Just Pop And Vanish, Just Explode.