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

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

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

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

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

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

"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."