History! Read it and weep!

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.