Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

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.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.