...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.

All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

Nature is to be observed

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

What we seek is never what we seek. That is why we may not recognize that we've found what we truly yearn for.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.