Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.