Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.