If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.