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

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.

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