If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.