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.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.

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

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.