You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

I couldn't have gotten into Harvard with a crowbar.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.