The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.