I fall asleep with the sound of her voice echoing in my head, and a feeling in my chest like someone is scooping my heart out with a spoon.

But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

If he invited you out, he's got to pay.

I wanted to finish on a stronger note. Fighting through that routine, you know what I was like, 'I'm just fighting through.'

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.

Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you're doing in business.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.