Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.