Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

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