In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

War will exist as long as there's a food chain.