The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.

Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.