Nora Ephron accidentally ruined a lot of lives.
Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind...
Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.
It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.
Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels bette...
If you hate everything, you’re a banal asshole…but if you don’t hate anything, you’re boring.
I think there’s a greater detriment with our escalating progression toward the opposite extremity—the increasingly common ideology that assures people they’re right about what they believe. And note t...
I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic r...
And this, of course, is the central problem with conspiracy theorists — once you inflexibly accept that something is a conspiracy, any contrary evidence has the paradoxical effect of making your case...
And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of...
There are things we cannot control about ourselves. One of these things is the degree to which we find something to be funny. It
The past has happened, and it can only happen the way it happened.
The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love without any acumen of normalcy. There is no normal, because everyone is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously...
The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.
Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind...
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.
Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.