The Biographer's Problem Is That He Never

Though Americans Talk A Good Deal About The Virtue Of Being Serious, They Generally Prefer People Who Are Solemn Over People Who Are Serious. In Politics, The Rare Candidate Who Is Serious, Like Adlai Stevenson, Is Easily Overwhelmed By One Who Is Solemn, Like General Eisenhower. This Is Probably Because It Is Hard For Most People To Recognize Seriousness, Which Is Rare, Especially In Politics, But Comfortable To Endorse Solemnity, Which Is As Commonplace As Jogging.

Journalist: A Person With Nothing On His Mind And The Power To Express It.

An Educated Person Is One Who Has Learned That Information Almost Always Turns Out To Be At Best Incomplete And Very Often False, Misleading, Fictitious, Mendacious - Just Dead Wrong.

Goat Cheese... Produced A Bizarre Eating Era When Sensible People Insisted That This Miserable Cheese Produced By These Miserable Creatures Reared On Miserable Hardscrabble Earth Was Actually Superior To The Magnificent Creamy Cheeses Of The Noblest Dairy Animals Bred In The Richest Green Valleys Of The Earth.

The Best Advice I Can Give Anybody About Going Out Into The World Is This: Don't Do It. I Have Been Out There. It Is A Mess....