It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.