All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.