It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.