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

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

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.

As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

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.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .