Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.