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...instinctively object to new forms of paternalism, but we also quickly accept them: laws requiring seat belts and motorcycle helmets, forced retirement savings through Social Security, waiting periods for marriage and gun licenses. Though you're not hurting anyone else, you can't commit suicide, have sex with your dog, drink in public, do drugs, be a prostitute, swim at a beach without a lifeguard, eat unpasteurized cheese or do most things that are crucial to the plot of independent movies. (See the 10 worst-dressed world leaders...
...next book you're working on? The next project is tentatively titled The Chinchilla Girl in Exile. It's about a 9-year-old girl who has hypertrichosis, which is a condition in which you have lots and lots of hair. She looks kind of like Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy. She's pretty hairy, and she's been homeschooled because her family doesn't think she is going to succeed socially in school. But she's very plucky, and she wants to have a normal life, so they reluctantly allow her to go to school. I was working...
...what the books call false humility - the act of constantly saying that one is not worthy, a not-so-subtle way of provoking someone else to exclaim, "Oh! But you are!" - is one of the most annoying of all character traits. Uriah Heep, the creeping, up-sucking piece of dog s___ in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield - forever telling everyone how 'umble he is - must be one of the most loathsome figures in world literature. (See pictures of the first eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...this disorganized. Billy Murray was the main guest. He came by early in the day to talk to the writers about what he might do. And he had this vague idea that he might sing "Let's Get Physical." And then he said he had to go feed his dog and left, and he never came back! There was no rehearsal at all. I didn't even know what key he was going to sing in. He comes back, just in time for the show, and I just started the music and he went for it. It was totally improvised...
...dog fetching what a human points at is standard dog behavior: master and dog. The cat, however, takes the lead in the cognition contest because she points her paw at what she wants, and the human fetches it for her: cat and slave...