We are the hero of our own story..

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state..

The happy ending is our national belief..

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex..

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout….

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism..

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad..

I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of G….

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard..

You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.".

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob..

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story..

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people..

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism..

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished..

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenl….

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a sta….

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins..

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant..

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it..

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing..