It's A Rare Person Who Wants To

You Can, After All, Reduce The Reasons For Watching Tv To But Two: To Be Lulled, And To Be Stimulated. Some People Do One Sometimes, The Other Sometimes. Some People Do All Of One Or All Of The Other.

Why Anyone, By Dying, Should Thereby Be Declared Beyond Criticism, Innocent Of Wrongdoing, Suddenly Filled With Virtue And Above Reproach Escapes Me.

Being The Offspring Of English Teachers Is A Mixed Blessing. When The Film Star Says To You, On The Air, 'it Was A Perfect Script For She And I,' Inside Your Head You Hear, In The Sarcastic Voice Of Your Late Father, 'perfect For She, Eh? And Perfect For I, Also?'

Does Anything Show The Complexity Of The Miraculous Brain More Than That Weird Curiosity, The Sleep-protection Dream?

All Three Of My Parents - I Also Had A Stepmother - Were Teachers, And My Dad Taught High School, And As He Always Reminded Me When I Was Going To Spend Some Money On Something, 'your Mother And I, In The Depression, Had To Decide Whether To Spend A Dime On A Loaf Of Bread Or If We Could Go To A Movie With It.'