Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.