I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
