We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.