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

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.