When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. 
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ... 
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. 
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. 
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. 
The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. 
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. 
The metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags. 
I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. 
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier. 
Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices 
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. 
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ... 
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. 