I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.