If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.