Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.