England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

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

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.