the mute protest in your own bones

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

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

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Reality is inside the skull.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.