Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth