One Life To Live: Actor Arrested For Assault ... One of the victims of the attack was a 46-year-old man named Salvatore Cabbibo. He was relaxing and drinking a cup of coffee when Marston emerged from a taxi and began to argue with the vehicle's driver...
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.
—John Berryman (1914–1972)
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)