Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.