his theory that all of the world’s problems were caused by notions of ethnic virtue and that if marriages were limited to interracial lovers there wo… - Jim Harrison

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

ashes don't return to wood,

I hadn't noticed the green of summer enough and now the colors were gray and white and black.