I didn’t list listening as one of my skills, probably because I didn’t hear what the interviewer asked.

Degree lets you to the chair of interview, but it cannot provide you job

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I’m still looking...

Your hair is still wet!

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

You know, everything’s a sort of lie, and then you die.

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think ‘this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

[It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus,] is a fun read and a twist on Christmas, because it does involve Santa Claus and Jesus, and it doesn’t say that Santa Claus is bad, but it’s...

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it’s too...

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me...

Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have no particular schedules… afternoons are best, but I’m too lethargic for...

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn’t have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Today, it’s possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open...

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won’t answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

An intensely gripping narrative…expertly crafted and totally addictive…a must read!

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

How did I discover saccharin? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time on the compound radicals and substitution products of coal tar… One evening I was...

98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you’re making a mistake, because people do cancel.

Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs…in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she...

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the...

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one...

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

I don’t believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that ‘it’s all about the process,’ I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that...