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

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.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

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

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.