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

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

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

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

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.