Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.