The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.