When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

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

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.