Gene Weingarten

When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan. ”

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something. ”

The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese. ”

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own. ”

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment. ”

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket. ”

While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber. ”