Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.