Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

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.

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.