One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.