Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.