Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.