There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I'm not a nice person.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.