The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.