'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.

I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?

Be advised that there is no parking in Europe.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Most recently I read Michael Lewis "Boomerang." The other guy I love is Bill Bryson.

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.