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.

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

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

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.