Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.