observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.
The most oblivious people are often the happiest.
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.
Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living in Boulder, Colorado, which isn't really a funny town. There are a lot of smart people there, but comedy isn't at the forefront of their minds.
Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.
No religion but blasphemes a little.
If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.
We cannot promote someone to Commander-in-Chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment Hillary Clinton has made.