Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

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

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.

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.