I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies.