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.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

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

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

Health food makes me sick.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.