Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.