I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
Gene WeingartenI don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.
Gene WeingartenInternational politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
Gene WeingartenEver since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.
Gene Weingarten