Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.