Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.