In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.