Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.

What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against evil.

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

America is like the greatest hit of the world.