Quotes from the World for Wednesday 07/17/MMXIII

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron (b. 1941), U.S. author and humorist. Scribble Scrabble, ch. 10 (1978).

Written in 1976, with reference to a book publisher.