The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.