High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.