The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.