Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

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.

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

My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.

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

Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart. And both of them were independents, by the way.