Elizabeth Drew's Quotes

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher.

The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.

We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.