James Mackintosh

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.