Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

Great, as long as you're happy

Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read.

It's a book. It's mine. And it's done.

People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.