I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.
P. J. O'RourkePeople who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
P. J. O'RourkeEl Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.
P. J. O'RourkeAmerica is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.
P. J. O'Rourke