Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging obstruction of justice.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

You are better than you think.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

Oh, SCULLION? You’re calling ME a scullion? What the HECK is a scullion?