You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.