Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.