People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.