The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

He just simply doesn't want to go through the hassle any more. I don't blame him. It would be almost unjust to go further.

He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.