For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.