My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.