"There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme."

“I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.”

“One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.”

“For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.”

Source : Essays in Criticism First Series, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865)

“Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger”

“To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.”

“I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.”

“We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth”