Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

Nice, nice, very nice.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.