When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

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 man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus