There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

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

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.