Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

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.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.