Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.