A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.