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

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

Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.