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

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

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.