If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.

Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.