Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

What memories for mud to have.

One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

We all missed a lot. We'd all do well to start again, preferably with kindergarten.

We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages-they haven't ended yet.

(He) told us about one of Plato's dialogues, in which an old man is asked how it felt not to be excited by sex anymore. The old man replies that it was like being allowed to dismount from a wild horse.

What could be more essential in a pluralistic society like ours than that every citizen see dignity in every other human being everywhere?

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

She had figured out that the most pervasive American disease was loneliness, and that even people at the top often suffered from it, and that they could be surprisingly responsive to attractive strangers who were friendly.