It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.