The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.