Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they ….

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a gr….

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so….

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed….

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down..

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it..

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars..

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty..

Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In poli….

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green..

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, ….

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century..

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic..

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics,….

We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark a….

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart..

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, poss….

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The fir….

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease o….

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without f….