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

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

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.

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

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

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.