Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.