In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

It takes only one child to raze a village.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.

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

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.