If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.