Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five - a reasonable notion when those over sixty-five were a tiny percentage of the population but increasingly untenable as they approach 20 perc...
It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.
I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Jaxton couldn't get his mind to settle on one thought, as he stared at the ground. Roman was here, after all these years. He was just a few steps away from him, talking and flirting with Thayer, as if the last six years had been nothing. Where had he...
There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their strength. Each day surgeons are faced with uncertainties. Information is inadequate; the science is ambiguous; one's knowledge and ab...
The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing - is uncertainty. With all that we know nowadays about people and...
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is d...
Where were me parents? Where were Becky? I felt so alone, so lost that I could not see. By that I mean, everything round me were a blur, everything inside me were a blur of fear and shock. I heard meself crying and moaning, My oh my, my oh my . . . I...
We’re soldiers, Emily. If we’re not elders or council members then that’s all we are. We’re here to serve those above us. We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can’t die for all eternity wit...
A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on h...
100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.
For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
