Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.

One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."