Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.