Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.