The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.

And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...

I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her.

Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.

Friday means popcorn and multiplexes, speaking of movies, and it is the multi that is the problem. So many movie screens. The struggle of what to put on them.

I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.