He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.