A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if….

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings..

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins..

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems..

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases..

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost….

Americans like fat books and thin women..

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him..

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were..

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much..

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes..

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's bel….

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.….

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House….

What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long..

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the pr….

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion..

Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on….

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees an….

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are fu….

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dea….