I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

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

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