Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.