Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.