God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.