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

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

Everything I love about America is fragile.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.