We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.