Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.