Those who say they don’t believe in love, or art, or politics, or God, always believe acutely, piercingly, in their disbelief.
Anti-colonialism, n. The belief that local traditional cultures must be protected and preserved, unless they involve Christianity or NASCAR.
Plastic surgery has done more for human happiness than psychopharmacology.
Not to opine in public on matters that surpass one’s understanding — this is the most neglected of civic duties.
Every discipline attempts to transfer sovereignty from the consumer to the producer; “professionalism” is our name for a successful coup.
Self-criticism, painful as it may be, at least affords the opportunity to think about oneself.
Leader, n. The champion follower.
Every feasible technology will be used, and every admitted principle will be exploited.
History is hard to start and impossible to stop.
Collegiality is implacably hostile to independence of mind, and it can be avoided only by not having colleagues.