The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.