Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated if resort could occasionally be had to witchcraft.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.