The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples. |
The homosexual subculture based on brief, barren assignations is, in part, a dark mirror of the sex-obsessed majority culture. |
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. |
The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. |
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. |
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. |
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy |
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog. |
There is a declining number of Americans paying income taxes, while more and more people are dependent for things that fewer and fewer people are paying for. |
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. |
They seem to have a license to lie. |
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant |
This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle. |
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. |
Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui. |