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

"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."

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

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.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.