Ah, Summer, What Power You

A Skillful Playwright Might Have A Good Time With The Story Of The Assassination Of President William Mckinley, And Especially With The Three Most Flamboyant Political Figures Involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, And Emma Goldman.

It Was Dramatic To Watch My Grandmother Decapitate A Turkey With An Ax The Day Before Thanksgiving. Nowadays The Expense Of Hiring Grandmothers For The Ax Work Would Probably Qualify All Turkeys So Honored With Gourmet Status.

It Seems To Be A Law In American Life That Whatever Enriches Us Anywhere Except In The Wallet Inevitably Becomes Uneconomic.

After Two Years Studying What Rewrite Men Did With The Facts I Phoned Them, I Knew That Journalism Was Essentially A Task Of Stringing Together Seamlessly An Endless Series Of Cliches.

Life Seemed To Be An Educator's Practical Joke In Which You Spent The First Half Learning And The Second Half Learning That Everything You Learned In The First Half Was Wrong.