Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
