Since this is the week of quotes – John Cheever, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Matthiessen, the Florida Department of Transportation – I’ll end with one from Jan Morris, from her 1974 essay on Washington, DC:
“Capital of a violent nation, Washington is accustomed to violent values. Its general air is easygoing, but its bad men are truly bad, and brute force lies always near the heart of it.”
