You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.