It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive.