The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

Happy the man with a book-length grievance - and rare. Each of these books contains one possible magazine article surrounded by more padding than an offensive …

Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the charac…

'...in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them . . . .' (p. 3)

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

A prowde hert in a beggers brest, A fowle visage with gay temples of atyre, Horrible othes with an holy prist, A justice of juges to selle and lete to hyre, A …