Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

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?

I'm a political conservative.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.