If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.

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

Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.