Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

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.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.