The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't.

My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.