The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.