The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

Very dangerous things, theories.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.