A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.