Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.

In Ruin City, in the rain, the sound of melancholy is a buzzing maelstrom of quiet desperation. The shatter has been so great, there is no sound left to despair.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.

Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.

Television's not going read stories to you.

If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

This is not even Bill Clinton's Democrat Party, anymore. This party, the Democrat Party of today, is so off the rails and so radical that Christians and Catholics are leaving the Democrat Party.

If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%.