God is love? Not bloody likely.

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

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.