Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.