Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old

Good taste is always bad.

Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

As we delight in the strange and exotic beauty of orchid flowers, it is salutary to reflect that we are, in essence, looking at their genitalia.

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

Three or four times, I have had the great death but my life is lived in the million tiny moments that make up the one dance

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

Cake and tea or death?

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

Leadership is based on complex phenomena.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.