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

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

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.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

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

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.

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.