You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
P. J. O'RourkeSomething is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
P. J. O'RourkeA cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.
P. J. O'RourkeThe sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.
P. J. O'Rourke