"I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system."

"I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced."

"I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool."

"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."

"I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine."

"I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration."

"Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today."