Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation, ' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

I almost did the knee-jerk thing of saying Judge Judy is funny to me, but I just don't have the patience for the format of that show.

My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.