There's no evidence cough and cold medicines work. We're pretty much talking about all of the medicines.

The first question that comes up is why would you want to stop a cough? The cough is a mechanism your body uses to protect you from pneumonia. So the last thing we want to do is take away your body's natural defenses. We're not in favor of cough medicine from the get-go.

This is not necessarily a good thing. Your airways have these little hairs that move secretions along. If they are dried out, they can't move them.

We'll be talking about which [participants] liked better, how film adaptations work and what you can do in cinema and not in books and vice-versa.

The minute the text-messaging icon went up on my Web site, teens were talking about it on my message boards. Anything that gets kids excited about books is great. This is just reading in a totally different way.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.... The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.