It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.