Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.