Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

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."

Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.