If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.