Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.