To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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...
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get...
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Then when I got in the military I used to host - even in high school - I...
At school there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom...
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal...
In our racist sexist society Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing...
I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an...
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to...
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I...
Every Christmas now for years I have found myself wondering about the point...
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song but at the same time I...