I bought my first house because of Animal House.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.

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

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.