There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.