People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.