As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.