I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mi….

Why in the world are you a Republican?.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservat….

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan..

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist..

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean..

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally o….

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean ea….

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent..

By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a n….

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

When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I w….

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms gua….

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed..

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry..

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning w….

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has ….

The price of purity is purists..

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism..

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invit….

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen….