When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.