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.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

I'm really tired of virtue.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."