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.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

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

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

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

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

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