It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!
An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.
I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.
I stand up to people.
As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.
Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
What many people today assume Christianity to be is basically Plutarch plus Jesus.