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

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

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

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

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

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

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