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

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

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.