I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.