The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

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

It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.