According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful . . .

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.