Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.