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

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

In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

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

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

We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.