To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.
The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.