The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

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

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.