[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but t….

Objectivity? I've always had an objective..

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's f….

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and wh….

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgit….

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or ….

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out..

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating..

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees..

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in….

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sl….

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men t….

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly sum….

Objectivity? I always have an objective..

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to chan….

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control..

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing..

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept..

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public..

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening..