The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.