I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

It is beyond logic that we see the light.

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

In some ways you become who you really are, if you work hard enough on who you wish to be.

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.