No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal

I am a great admirer of women.

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.

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

Los Angeles is many places in one place.