I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.
Dave BarryOf course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the US tax code, you'd find at least one sex scene. ("Yes, yes, YES!" moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture...)
Dave BarryThe Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.
Dave BarryThere are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
Dave BarryPeople are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.
Dave BarryI've been to Washington many times over the years for stories, and it always seems remarkably the same. More the same than the rest of the country. It's almost like they dress the same as they did 20 years ago. The same old guys are sitting outside the same dirty, dingy secret offices in the Capitol that you're not allowed to go in.
Dave Barry