One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.