American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

If you're being attacked from all sides, it's possible you're doing something right; it's also possible that you are doing everything wrong.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.