Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.