Freedom Costs You A Great Deal.

I Cannot And Will Not Cut My Conscience To Fit This Year's Fashions, Even Though I Long Ago Came To The Conclusion That I Was Not A Political Person And Could Have No Comfortable Place In Any Political Group.

God Forgives Those Who Invent What They Need.

One Sits Uncomfortably On A Too Comfortable Cushion.

Writers Are Interesting People, But Often Mean And Petty.

Intellectuals Can Tell Themselves Anything, Sell Themselves Any Bill Of Goods, Which Is Why They Were So Often Patsies For The Ruling Classes In 19th-century France And England, Or 20th-century Russia And America.