Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situa….

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward..

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride..

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband..

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye..

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell..

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock..

The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the….

In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the ac….

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a sp….

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier..

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man..

Good drama should sandpaper the mind..

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companio….

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love..

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult fo….

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate..

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man..

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net..

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west..