Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.