Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.