it was being fired in Vegas that really fueled Carlin's creativity.

he had come to see himself as a writer who performed his own material rather than as a comic

The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse.

When people say that students at elite schools have a strong sense of entitlement, they mean that those students think they deserve more than other people because their sat scores are higher.

You deserve everything your presence here is going to enable you to get.

the last thing an elite education will teach you is its own inadequacy

The German firm are determined to make their model range run on alternative fuels - to improve costs, become more eco-friendly and because the oil supply will eventually run out.

TWENTY YEARS AGO I was an extreme right-wing Republican, a young and lone 'Neanderthal' (as the liberals used to call us) who believed, as one friend pungently put it, that 'Senator Taft had sold out to the socialists.' Today, I am most likely to be called an extreme leftist, since I favor immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, denounce U.S. imperialism, advocate Black Power and have just joined the new Peace and Freedom Party. And yet my basic political views have not changed by a single iota in these two decades!

If you're confused about a phenomenon, that's a fact about your own state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon itself

High-flying tech stocks crashed. The roaring housing market crumbled. And oil, rest assured, will follow the same path down.