The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.