The major cause of problems are solutions

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.