“We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?” — John Kenneth Galbraith

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.