For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

Because of the Internet everybody sees the same stuff. You can buy the clothes of New York, even if you're not living there. So I think that the accessibility, in this case, drives buying choices more than anything else.

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.

Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.