I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.