I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.
'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.
I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.
I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm like, 'Let's date for three years' - which is just ridiculous.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.
Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.
I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
