Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.