I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.