I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.