Robert Benchley
Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early VANITY FAIR Edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend Penguin Press (2014) Yes, Virginia, there really is a machine in which you can return in time to the United States: 1913-193…
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The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, Editor Yale University Press (2006) A treasury of “highly quotatious” insights During the past 25-30 years, I have purchased and then made frequent use of dozens of anthologies of quotations (including revised…
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Some read, others only read about: Basic Issues
Robert Benchley is among my favorite humorists. He once observed, “The world is divided into two groups of people. Those who divide the world into two groups of people and those who don’t.” I am among those who divide the…
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