Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.

I'm a political conservative.