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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.
My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.
I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.
When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.
I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.
I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it illegal.
Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about the Irish.
There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.
Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.
Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.
I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.
Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.
Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.
I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.
. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
The true gun safety advocates, as they have been for centuries, are the millions of members of the NRA and other training organizations.
YouTube is the most popular video service in the world. It's how Americans, and the rest of the world, overwhelmingly search for videos.
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.