Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

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.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.