I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.