Ireland Really Is My Problem; The Breaking

People Seem To Enjoy Things More When They Know A Lot Of Other People Have Been Left Out Of The Pleasure.

What The New Yorker Calls Home Would Seem Like A Couple Of Closets To Most Americans, Yet He Manages Not Only To Live There But Also To Grow Trees And Cockroaches Right On The Premises.

The Old Notion That Brevity Is The Essence Of Wit Has Succumbed To The Modern Idea That Tedium Is The Essence Of Quality.

Children Rarely Want To Know Who Their Parents Were Before They Were Parents, And When Age Finally Stirs Their Curiosity, There Is No Parent Left To Tell Them.

Strategic Thinkers Were Naturally Rattled To Find This Outsider Fooling Around With Their Work. They Had Been Thinking Strategically When Reagan Was Just Another Movie Actor Playing Opposite A Chimpanzee, For Heaven's Sake. They Think Reagan Is Too Naive, Too Innocent, To Grasp The Intellectual Complexities Of Cold War Strategy.