The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

There's no place for impractical dreamers around here.