Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.