People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

The happiest people on Earth are the ones who know love.

Anyone can life to you face, and you would believe them because you trusted them.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.