Quotes by : John Derbyshire

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful....

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading....

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic.....

The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes....

As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of "niggardly," who otherwise....

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice....