[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.

Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.

I'm 61 years old. I'm not that fearful of the future, period. I'm not going to see that much of it.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

I always thought there was some romance to that '30s leftist stuff, even though I'm a Republican.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

There's no such thing as a trade deficit.