“Cricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.”

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

The idea was to restore the rule of law, to bring order to a chaotic situation.

For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.