Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.