Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.