It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

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

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.