And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .