I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Never choose between your heart or brain. Neither instincts nor anything perfectly planned is always right. Follow what heart says but let brain accompany it.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

If I had campaigned for it, Arvind Kejriwal would have become the chief minister of Delhi.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

Elected presidents are for countries.