The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

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.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

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