Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.