1.   An open book invites comments, and people writing them have the option of standing on the flag.

2.   He comes from a family where, when you have lunch with your parents, your mother writes you the next day to thank you for coming.

3.   Maybe if they had, Ambrose could have written a better book, the book he tried to write.

4.   What all hysterics have in common, Ms. Showalter writes, is an inability to express personal despair.