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.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

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

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

"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."

I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.

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?