It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

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

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.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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

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