Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.