One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to sm….

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-cu….

I've had an unhappy life, thank God..

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhoo….

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity..

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?.

Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of re….

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T..

Serious journalism need not be solemn..

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it..

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seaml….

There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living..

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Repub….