Whoever came up with the ida of labeling classified documents with larger-than-life red stenciling that advertises—or at least hints at—the contents was a schmuck, I think. You might as well put a tag that says OPEN ME! on it. If it were up to me, I'd hide all secrets in back copies of Reader's Digest.

You can take a lot away from a person - money, job, intellectual stimulation, whatever. You can take her words, even, without changing the essence of her.Take away camaraderie, though, and we’re talking about something different.

There's a resistance?" The word sounds sweet as I say it."Honey, there's always a resistance.

The old saying goes, "keep a stiff upper lip," but as I watch his reflection in the polished, steel walls of the elevator, I think that it isn't the lip we need to worry about. The bottom one gives our terror away. Every single time.

he handed out a sheet of paper with the foulest garbage written on it. You remember that old thing about seven dirty words? Well, they were there, and about fifty other ones.

One thing I learned from Jackie: you can't protest what you don't see coming.

My fault started two decades ago, the first time I didn't vote, the umpteen times I told Jackie I was too busy to go on one of her marches or make posters or call my congressmen.

It’s like an elevator key, one of those round, single-purpose gizmos . . . a device that brings to mind all the other silly little inventions: can openers, lemon zesters, melon ballers. Things that do only one thing. We have so many of them.

A menudo me he preguntado eso, cómo es posible que los niños se convirtieran en monstruos, cómo aprendieron que matar estaba bien y que la opresión era justa, cómo en una sola generación el mundo pudo cambiar el giro sobre su eje hasta convertirse en un lugar irreconocible.

Saldrán un montón de chicos hambrientos de poder, hartos de que les digan que tienen que ser más sensibles. Y no creas que todos serán hombres. También las Amas de Casa Perfectas estarán de su parte