A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
From P. J. O'Rourke
Writing is agony. I hate it.
Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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