In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

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!