Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries