My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

Nora Ephron’s great line that “overtipping only costs a few dollars more.

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.