You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.