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TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.
Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
I think New York is the center of fashion, even though L.A. has a lot of heritage and the glamour of Hollywood.
It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.
My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.
Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't.
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."
Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.
We've been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that's true?
Though we endow them with human features - heads, faces, heels, toes - golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.
If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.
Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.
Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.
I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.