It was the cocktail hour in Priss’s room at New York Hospital — terribly gay. - Hannah Arendt

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.

She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.

He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.