If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.