Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

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.

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.