People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.