“Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.”

“The news is glorified gossip.”

“Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.”

“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”

“We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].”

“A killer is someone who killed another without their country’s permission.”

“Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.”

“Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.”

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”

“A makeover is the rebranding of a human being.”

“The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.”