Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories—gay and straight.
Journalism and popular fiction have merged, and the graphic and the plausible have become an end in themselves. The contemporary public plainly prefers mirrors to windows.
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...
Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury.
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...
The Russian governors are terrified of ideas. If only they knew what our governors know—that in a massive egalitarian society no idea which runs counter to the prevailing superstitions can successfull...
A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)
The American people are as devoted to the idea of sin and its punishment as they are to making money—and fighting drugs is nearly as big a business as pushing them. Since the combination of sin and mo...
President Roosevelt provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor.
It is my task always to know, particularly when I don’t.
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...
Do not regulate the private lives of people because, if you do, they will become angry and antisocial, and they will get what they want from criminals who work in perfect freedom because they know how...
But then in all his words if not deeds Jefferson was so beautifully human, so eminently vague, so entirely dishonest but not in any meretricious way. Rather it was a passionate form of self-delusion t...
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.
عاد وحيداً و سعيداً ، مع ثلاثة كؤوسٍ موضوعةٍ أمامه على الطاوله : اثنان فارغان ، وواحد نصف مملوء و عليه آثار أحمر شفاه . رتَّبَ الكؤوس لتُشكِّلَ مثلثاً ، لكنه حين حاولَ ان يرتِّبها على شكلِ مربِّعٍ فشل...
We no longer live in a nation, but in a Homeland.