An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey' and 'Breaking Bad' or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.