We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced….

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity..

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and ….

This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the f….

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about ….

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual..

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit.

[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody wh….

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clin….

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen..

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such..

There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a r….

There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items….

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism..

Every generation finds the drug it needs..

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke.

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter..

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty..

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?.

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?.

You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen..