My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979