The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.