Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

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

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.