Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

How much is real and for how long..

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

I want people to know that the fight is worth it.

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

When you are nice to people, they bring their A-game.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.