I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

You become what you focus on and dream about.

He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency!

You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.