One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.