I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.