Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.