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

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

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.