As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

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.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.