The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Beer soothes the upset soul.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.