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.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

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

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

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.