Like Russians for Stalin, many Americans are nostalgic for a time when we all thought the same, or at least we all thought we did.

There are people who ask strangers and bare acquaintances impertinent questions as if they were entitled to an answer. Sometimes they turn professional, and become journalists.

If I must have my toxicity gendered, then give me guns, and a fist to the face, before poison, and a shiv in the back.

Those who think they are the future can't tell you half as much about it as those who know they are the past.

If hope lay in the proles, there would be no hope, but it lies in the intellectuals, and there is no hope.

Reasoning to broad, correct conclusions is like beating the market: it happens, but not to you.

The idea that art should relate to the audience is exactly backwards.

How he kills himself says a lot about a man.

Meritocracy replaces aristocracy with bureaucracy.

The Principles of Practical Politics

1. Gain power
2. Keep power
3. Whatever you think your political principles are

Never before in history has oppression been so subtle.

I hate modern architecture, but it hated me first.

Good German prose reads better in English, and bad English prose reads better in German.

It is more common to talk well than to listen well, and to write well than to read well.

It would not be possible for school to make us as stupid as it does without our native gifts.

Many modern ills trace to the fateful decision to teach stupid people how to read.