“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”

“Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)”

“The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in the Yale French Department - is an affectation of the loathsome rich, as bizarre as their taste for Corgi dogs and extra-virgin olive oil.”

“But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.”

“...between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.”

“Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...”