Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

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.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.