We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.