The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views. And writers, of course, subscribe enthusiastically to this idea.
We should be fingerprinting environmentalists... They are out to destroy the country.
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs, and poverty.
Ephemeral should be the default.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.
Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
India should be an exporter of technology.
Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
