The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

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?

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

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

"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."