Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Methodology is applied ideology.

Money is a better tonic than Geritol.

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.