Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.