Gracious Dying Is A Huge, Macabre And

A Thirteen-year-old Is A Kaleidoscope Of Different Personalities, If Not In Most Ways A Mere Figment Of Her Own Imagination. At That Age, What And Who You Are Depends Largely On What Book You Happen To Be Reading At The Moment.

Enemies Are, To Me, As Important As Friends In My Life, And When They Die I Mourn Their Passing.

The Whole Point Of Muck-raking, Apart From All The Jokes, Is To Try To Do Something About What You've Been Writing About. You May Not Be Able To Change The World But At Least You Can Embarrass The Guilty.

Alas, Poor Yorick! How Surprised He Would Be To See How His Counterpart Of Today Is Whisked Off To A Funeral Parlor And Is In Short Order Sprayed, Sliced, Pierced, Pickled, Trussed, Trimmed, Creamed, Waxed, Painted, Rouged And Neatly Dressed - Transformed From A Common Corpse Into A Beautiful Memory Picture.

It Is Somehow Reassuring To Discover That The Word Travel Is Derived From Travail, Denoting The Pains Of Childbirth.