In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?