If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

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

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.