Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.