The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.