Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.