Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.

In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?