“In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris”

“Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.”

“There may be arrogance and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.”

“People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.”

“Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.”

“Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.”

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now....”

“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen yo...”

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some...”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”