Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

Is evolution just another name for God?