All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from.

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.