George Santayana

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.