It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want