The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.