There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

"Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.