Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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

When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .