. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.