Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.