Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.