Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.