You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.