Laurence J. Peter

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.