Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.
Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.
We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.
I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.
I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?
Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned
Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.
