Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.