A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.