The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

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

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

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.