We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

Well, I've liked Star Wars since the late '70s. I liked it a lot.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.