Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.