I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.