"These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print."

“Thinking is easier than working. And the best kind of thinking is the kind where you don't have to write anything down, i.e., "meeting thinking." When you think up an idea during a meeting, all you have to do is blurt it out. You won't have to involve any parts of your body except your mouth and maybe your brain stem.”

“What if there are other optical illusions about our existence that are just as major as the illusion of the Sun revolving around the Earth? What are the odds that you live in exactly the window of human existence when all of the major optical illusions have been discovered? Wouldn't that be an amazing coincidence, since every previous generation of humans has believed they were born in that window of time?”

“We know the goats are imported because they don’t speak English.”

“They say that dogs lick their own genitalia because they can. But I think it's at least partially because they don't have the Internet.”

“I am saying: I see a flame thrower. I think the flame thrower guy wins in the stick fight.”

“There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.”