As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

There's always a source for humor.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."