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

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.