Forget the Bush family, they are the most negligible family in the country. They are unintelligent, they are reasonably decorative, they are obedient to the great economic powers. Nixon said something...
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great.
Of course magic was involved at the beginning of my quest. But I have since crossed the shadow line, made magic real, created myself. But to what end? For what true purpose have I smashed the male pri...
Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We...
Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury.
In 1989 the former drug czar and TV talk-show fool, William Bennett, suggested de jure as well as de facto abolition of habeas corpus in drug cases as well as (I am not inventing this) public beheadin...
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...
Apathy is just a lack of energy, which to me, is just the literal definition of decadence. So the energy gives out in a society - that is decadence.
[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...
The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories—gay and straight.
Post Tuesday, SWAT teams can now be used to go after suspect Arab Americans or, indeed, anyone who might be guilty of terrorism, a word without legal definition (how can you fight terrorism by suspend...
I realize, said Sumner, that the press is hardly reliable. Lincoln turned from the window; suddenly, he grinned. Oh, yes, they are. They lie. And then they re-lie. So they are nothing if not re-lie-ab...
I enjoy comedic invention, both high and low, there is almost nothing quite so satisfying as making an audience laugh while removing its insides.
I confess to not having listened to a word of the Declaration of Independence. At the time I barely knew the name of the author of this sublime document. I do remember hearing someone comment that sin...
For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
At times, she felt that she was involved in an elaborate peasant dance, which had not been entirely explained to her. Now the hand is held; now the heel is stamped; now the head turns; and then the ki...
As long as any group within the society deliberately maintains its identity it is, or should be, a fair target for satire—both for its own good and for the society’s.
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...