Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

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