Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.