Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal

I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.