Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.