Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

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.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.