“Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill.”
“Katrina was sexy, Irene looks hot, come on people, just see, how beautifully she dances along the coast.”
“Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had just run out.”
“Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.”
“Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.”
“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.”