There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you.

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.