Never fight an inanimate object.

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

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

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."