Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

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

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

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

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