Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

My Lovatics, thank you so much, Im so honored. You guys are such an incredible force and an amazing army.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.