I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

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.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

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.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

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