In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.