I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.