It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

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

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

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

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