My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next ….

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved on….

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not g….

The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths the….

While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically ….

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children..

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white win….

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am..

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management….

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools..

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction..

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the….

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences th….

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life..

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it..

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

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea ….

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably ….

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure..

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world..

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder..