For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.