Mike had called me and said he could offer me less, and I said, "You're on!" Because I was really excited with what Mike Kelly was doing, and now what Cullen Murphy is doing with Atlantic. It's a really cool magazine.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.