If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Favorite animal: steak.