To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

Having no talent is no longer enough.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Christianity is such a silly religion.