Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.