Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.