There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

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.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.