There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.