Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

Why in the world are you a Republican?

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.