Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

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

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

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

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.