One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

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

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

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.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.