It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.