Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

"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."