In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.