There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.