We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings and before you're finished counting, you"ll have even more

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.