lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

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.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

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

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.