I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.