I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

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

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.