Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.