I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.