Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

[Vietnam] only made billionaires out of millionaires. [Iraq] is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

My father said 'When in doubt, castle.'

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.