Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

...American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

[T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.