A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Mike had called me and said he could offer me less, and I said, "You're on!" Because I was really excited with what Mike Kelly was doing, and now what Cullen Murphy is doing with Atlantic. It's a really cool magazine.