I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.