A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.
We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.
I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.
Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
I live a generally quiet life, as it were.