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

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

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.

There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

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

The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.