98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first -- and the other 2% are lying.

The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine,

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.