The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.