Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.