The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every...
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy...
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are...
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a...
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself he is...
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the...
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I...
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A...
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are...
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty...
Much can and must be done by governments but they cannot of themselves...
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians...
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into...
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying...
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.