I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.

People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

The first story to read is the Biblical stories.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

I came from a real working-class show business family.