Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.