There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.

Critical power...tends to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself. It tends to establish an order of ideas, if n…

Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the …

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

My Mum was Jewish. Maybe I'm a really bad Jew because I'm always so excited to say that I am, but I don't live and breathe the religion.

I come to eat with very important people in the world, and I say 'only kosher', and always with a skullcap. I don't recall that my business ever suffered from …