Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

All living things on earth are kindred.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.