The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

Never assume the obvious is true.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.