Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

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

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.