If You Want Understanding Try Giving Some.

If You Don't Watch Your Figure, You'll Have More Figure To Watch.

Anticipating Is More Fun Than Recollecting.

Real Writers-that Is, Capital W Writers-rarely Make Much Money. Their Biggest Reward Is The Occasional Reader's Response.... Commentators-in-print Voicing Big Fat Opinions-you Might Call Us Small W Writers-get Considerably More Feedback Than Writers. The Letters I Personally Find Most Flattering Are Not The Very Rare Ones That Speak Well Of My Editorials, But The Occasional Reader Who Wants To Know Who Writes Them. I Always Happily Assume The Letter-writers Is Implying That The Editorials Are So Good That I Couldn't Have Written Them Myself.

A Little While Ago I Visited Omaha Beach For The Second Time In My Life. In The Intervening 26 Years, Nearly 20,000 Tides Had Come And Gone And Little Remains Visible Of The Greatest Military Landing In Man's History Of Endless Warring. What's To Be Seen Is Mostly In A Superb Museum And A Panoramic Cemetery. The Cemetery Memorializes With Dignity And Grandeur The Event And The Dead, And Moves One Deeply. Before They Die Less Precipitously And/or In Lesser Purpose, Americans Who Can Should Visit World War Ii's Normandy Beach. Such Seeing And Remembering Helps A Man's Perspective.

Meanness Demeans The Demeaner Far More Than The Demeaned.