Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.
Safe at the opposite corner, Clancey was himself again — coolly disdainful despite dirt-smeared face, torn shirt ... Clancey's voice is like that of a furious goose, all honks and hisses.
AFTER HAMILTON’S DEATH, I remained at Richmond Hill for ten days. I confess that I was not prepared for the response to our interview. Apparently no one had ever fought a duel in the whole history of...
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most...
Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to beat war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Breathed breakfast Madeira in my face. Charlot, he has robbed me! I looked at her blankly; not breathing until she removed her face from mine, and sank back onto the velvet cushions. I have married a...
It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as ours should, over the years, have come yo care so much about our health as it endlessly tests and r...
In 1970, I wrote in the New York Times, of all uncongenial places, It is possible to stop most drug addiction in the United States within a very short time. Simply make all drugs available and sell th...
Foreigners are mystified by the whole business while thoughtful Americans – there are several of us – are equally mystified that the ruling establishment of the country has proved to be so mindlessly...
As we left the bar, we saw two men fighting at the wooden pump. One was short and stocky: he was pummelling a tall gangling creature with loose flapping arms ... Edwin Forrest was giving a much deserv...
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
Weaving his verbal wreaths, in prose and verse, of marvellous poison ivy.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
…the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. I...
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and allow us to glimpse eternity. And philosophy, whic...
The Bowery b'hoys were delighted ... to observe a pair of their favorites in league against their natural enemy, for Clancey detests our democracy, finds even the Whigs radical, the Adams family vulga...
Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist ag...