On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.