If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.