I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

Service to humanity has no alternative

Don't wait for the opportunity, create it.

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.