The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.

What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.

Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.

...I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

I'm good at picking friends.

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.