The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.