Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.