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

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 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.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

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.