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

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.