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

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.