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

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.