Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.