Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

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

... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.