In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.