People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately..

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it..

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer ….

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding..

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreig….

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for t….

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear..

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness..

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writ….

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictiti….

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.....

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses..

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture..

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist..

There are no liberals behind steering wheels..

The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can ea….

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most fl….

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down..

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they ….

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard..

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs..