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

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

The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart.

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.