I think I've yet to do the big heave is because New York editors tend to think D. C. guys like me want to do political stories. And I hate politics for its own sake. Politics are so. . . I don't know, political. Which is an odd thing for a guy to say, I suppose, who has worked at a political magazine for fourteen years.
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead