One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.

The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.