El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.