The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.