The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

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