The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take s….

The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like g….

Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun..

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke..

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job..

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but genera….

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things..

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money..

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians..

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves ab….

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words..

Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reag….

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail..

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. An….

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting….

Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women fro….

When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wi….

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going..

The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of dan….

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something.….