What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Rituals help us change modes.

For every establishment there is a stir-up virtue

Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.