We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.