It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

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

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.