When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

"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."

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

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

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.