Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun