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

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.

A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage.

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

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

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