The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

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

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.