The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.