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

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

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.

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

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

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