Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.