Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.