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

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

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

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

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