"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"

"Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having littl…"

"Could the Aboriginal and the British cultures have been reconciled when they first met? The prevailing view is that they could have signed a treaty and found a way of ­living together in relative ­har…"

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."

"Doublespeak embedded in a convenient matrix of anticommunist ideology was essential, as the U.S. establishment was obliged to pretend that the huge global expansion of the U.S. political economy on wh…"