The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.