Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.