Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

I am creative, blissful, and blessed!

Without love, life is unsustainable.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.