Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

I think, over the last couple of years, the written word has made a comeback on the Internet. For example, I'm seeing more long-form narrative experiments there. The overall noise level, however, continues to increase. Do we really need TV screens to watch when we pump gas? Really?