The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned by making lousy products with very poor production at high prices. So, the government, back in the '70s, nationalized all the British car companies. The result was British Leyland, a name that perhaps doesn't resonate much with you.

Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.

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.

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.