Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.