Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next