If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.