For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.