People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

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

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

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.