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.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

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

[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.

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.