When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.