"Postmodernism will soon be confirmed as the American academic orthodoxy because it permits, ultimately, the summary d…"

"I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness."

"The audience will always feel far more generous if, as some point in the evening, a little time has been found for th…"

"My late friend hated book-jackets, and ripped them all off immediately. I think he felt, somehow, that the book was s…"

"In the end, the desolate age always turns instinctively to Classicism, which if nothing else legislates against certa…"

"I’m always amused by those commentators who nervously insist that the working class’s constant use of the word fuck i…"

"Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mar…"

"O to be like my Lord! Yet must I be Mine own self too, And to the nature He bestowed on me Be frankly true.The olive …"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"