It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
Axl Rose is the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs in human form.
When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?
We’re starting to behave as if we’ve reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.
The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage. It will more likely derive from our uncompromising belief in the things we conside...
Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
Let’s assume it was Christopher Columbus’s destiny to discover the New World, and let’s pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible difference would that have made in his day-to-day l...
It’s impossible to understand the world of today until today has become tomorrow.
It starts from the premise that black connotes evil and death in all cultures and hopes to figure out if these associations influence people’s behavior in important ways. For example, does wearing bla...
It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight gir...
If I were an adult, I would be drinking coffee; as it is, I'm drinking Mountain Dew.
I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completel...
We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The la...
The stark, pedestrian images used by filmmakers (probably out of financial necessity) expressed nothing, symbolically or metaphorically. The only purpose they served was to remind me that a huge chunk...
Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not. Avoiding villainy is not that different from avoiding loneliness: First, you must love yourself. And if...
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.
TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
So if you’ve seen Twelve Monkeys more than twice, you’re probably a Calvinist.