The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

kisses... areand always will be the only language that I will have ever truly known.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

I do not sleep to dream but dream to change the world

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Of course, there are some people who behave rudely. Allen Ginsberg used to like to get up in public and take his clothes off. I don't do that, but I liked Allen Ginsberg. He was a nice guy.