The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'

Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.