A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

I'm a rather decisive type.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.