New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.