I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.

Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?