Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.