History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.