These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.