Americans like fat books and thin women.
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling...
Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires...
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good like to...
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major...
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take...
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage...
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read...
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it.
Ah summer what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Newspaper people once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun...
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most...
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes...
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself'...
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of...
When sudden death takes a president opportunities for new beginnings...
When people ask me about my story I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments the big landmark checkpoints.
