Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.

Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

Sometimes you need a B-2 bomber and sometimes you need your mother.