Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

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

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.