The Rat Squeaks

Dorothy Parker : "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

Robertson Davies: " There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every w...

Adolf Hitler: "What luck for rulers that men do not think."

I guess I keep polishing up the mechanical parts of the blog(s) and forgetting to write and publish any new posts. As long as I'm kept ...

Dogger Gatsby and Diamond-Brand Matches Dogger Gatsby was strange, I admit. He once sent a letter to the American manufacturing concern who...

Joe Demon thought on one hand that it’d be easy and on the other that it would be ridiculously hard. He’d met her recently on the Internet ...

Voltaire: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld: "When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

APARTMENT AIR CONDITIONER BLUES The worst thing was the people, not the broken air conditioner. And not the repairman, either, but the off...

Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876: "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have ...