Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

At last there is light at the end of the tunnel.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

I may not hate al of the people all the time, but I hate all of them some of the time, and I hate some of them all of the time.

Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again.

Where his eyes should’ve been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

I'm very moody when it comes to food. Even before pregnancy I would just get very specific with things that I wanted.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.

Too much sanity may be madness!

The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s.

The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?