Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.