Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

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

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

Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

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.

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