People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
Luck is statistics taken personally.
Fear is the politicians dance partner.
Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.
My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.