[Howard's] eyes were open and very clear. I'd forgotten what a beautiful gray they were--illness and medicine had regularly glazed them over; now they were bright and attentive, and he was watching me...
You know what Mr. Bates called me? Seward shook his head with wonder. An unprincipled liar. And here I am one of the most heavily principled men in politics. Lincoln chuckled. In every way, making all...
The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of...
Pfaff: The riposte of a civilized nation: one that believes in good, in human society and does oppose evil, has to be narrowly focused and, above all, intelligent. Missiles are blunt weapons. Those te...
Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.
None of this is quite true but Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.
Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one.
Contrary to accepted legend, the Philadelphians did not at all mind the presence of the British army in their city; in fact, many of them hoped that Washington would soon be caught and hanged, putting...
As we rounded a small pavilion, we nearly stepped into a pair of figures — who leapt apart. One was William de la Touche Clancey. The other was a well-made boy of perhaps sixteen, carefully got up to...
After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater.
After all, as educated men, we should realize that myths always stand for other things. They are toys for children teething. The man knows that the toy horse is not a true horse but merely suggests th...
[Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equ...
The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the paveme...
So here they are, trying to get us into the army again to get us to fight in Europe, but the country is isolationist. One of the reasons why the world has been demonized is because they had to do it....
Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.
Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.
I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time. Cyrus Sitema
[T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willin...