No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.