Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.