We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.