I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

I read good. I was an English major.

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.