There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

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

Everybody is who he was in high school.

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

There's always a source for humor.

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