The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.