Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.