It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

I'm not a nice person.

Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.

it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?

James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.