All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.