There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.