Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!

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

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

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

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