Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."